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In our omnipresent quest to increase our local offerings NewBoston now offers local meat, eggs, and milk from two producers. 

Bauman's Cedar Valley Farm is located near Garnett, Kansas and is offering us chicken, turkey, eggs, raw whole milk all at remarkable prices.  For more information or to place an order email Berrigan Willmott at veganbear@gmail.com

Sweetlove farm (www.sweetlovefarm.com) near Oskaloosa, Kansas is also offering poultry, eggs, and more.  For more information or to place an order email Lilly Mason at lillymason@yahoo.com 

On Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12, the Lawrence Fair Trade Coalition at the University of Kansas is aligning with other universities and like-minded groups in the region to sponsor the second annual Fair Trade in the Heartland Conference.  This year’s conference is entitled “Starting a Movement, Building a Community”.  Beyond reaching out and spreading awareness about the global Fair Trade movement, we hope to also impart a better understanding of the local markets.  Our surrounding community is often overlooked for the generic products offered by the global market.  Through this conference, we will learn and teach others about the benefits of a localized economy and the importance of maintaining a strong sense of unity with our neighbors and local businesses.  

For more information or to register visit the Lawrence Fair Trade website.

For more information please contact NewBoston member Jennifer Kongs, spearit1@ku.edu.     

As was mentioned at this month's split meeting, a new mushroom subscription service is available here in Lawrence and is being headed by NewBoston member Bob Bruce.

Beginning Spring 2008, Wakarusa Vallay Farm mushrooms will be paired with choice wild mushrooms from the Pacific Northwest and distributed at The Casbah Market in downtown Lawrence.  Once a week subscribers will enjoy a mixed bag of diverse mushroom species including Shiitake, Oyster, Black Poplar, Pom-Pom, Chanterelle, Lobster, Morel, Porcini, Matsutake, Hedgehog, Wine Cap, and Maitake all provided on a seasonal basis. $18/bag weekly or bi-weekly.  For information or to sign up contact: Bob, bobruce@gmail.com

As your eyes had surely just adjusted to that blinding magenta, we welcome you to the new and ever so slightly redesigned New Boston Coop site.  The news will now be posted to this blog page, not because blogs are so cutting edge, as demonstrated by the fact that many grandparents now sit at home and blog all day (after writing this and not actually knowing if this is really true, a quick google search produced thousands of grand parent blogs in addition to a study finding 5% of grandparents blog while over 20% read blogs, among them StayAtHomeGrandpa.com, which you will now inevitably visit and this mystery grandpa will be so confused tomorrow when he's had thirty some different kansans visit his page in a single day.)

Regardless, one-upping the elderly is not our aim; however, the ability to archive posts, offer everyone the opportunity to post comments or questions, and simply an easier way of keeping the site updated made the blog an inevitability. So here we are. Feedback welcomed.